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Seven Against Thebes. N. Wecklein. . .

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (German) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 288-368 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 288-368 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 288 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 288 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 288 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 288 focus
μέλει, φόβῳ δ᾽ οὐχ ὑπνώσσει κέαρ·
γείτονες δὲ καρδίας
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μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι τάρβος
τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών,
δράκοντας ὥς τις τέκνων
ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαί-
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 288 focus
Translations (8)
Seven Against Thebes Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 288-365 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 288 focus
I attend, but through terror my heart sleeps not, and cares that press close upon my heart keep my dread alive, because of the host that hems our walls
around; like as a dove, an all-attentive nurse, fears, on behalf of her brood, serpents evil intruders into her nest. For some are advancing against the towers in all their numbers, in all their array; (what will become of me?) and others are launching the vast rugged stone at the citizens, who are assailed on all sides. By every means, O ye Jove-descended gods! rescue the city and the army that spring from Cadmus.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 288 focus
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The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 288 focus
I wou'd obey thee; but my breast
Yet pants with fear, and knows not rest:
Too near my heart distracting care
Wakes all the horrors of despair:
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And as the trembling dove, whose fears
Keep watch in her uneasy bow'r,
Thinks in each rustling leaf she hears
The serpent gliding to devour,
I tremble at each sullen sound
310
Of clashing arms, that roars around:
With all their troops, with all their pow'rs,
Fierce they advance to storm our tow'rs;
Now hurtling in the darken'd sky,
What does my cruel fate prepare!
315
Rude, batt'ring stones incessant fly,
And all the missive storm of war.
Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 288 focus
Taccio; ma, sbigottito, requie non trova il cuore
nel sonno. Le finitime
angosce in esso accendono il terrore
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dell'incombente esercito:
cosí pei nidïacei
teme i serpi, funerei
compagni al loro talamo,
la trepida colomba.
325
Questi alle torri incalzano:
sono turba, son popolo !
Di noi che mai sarà ?
Quest'aspra furia scagliano
di sassi, che su i miseri
330
giú da ogni parte piomba.
Di Giove o figli, o Superi,
salvi mandate il popolo
di Cadmo, e la città!
1 Antistrofe I
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 288 focus
Cura, pre timore non quiefcet cor:
Vicinæ cordi ſolicitudines inflammant me,
Metus populum obſesſorem,
Draconem tanquam ob caufam prolis
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Verita est lectorum
Laborans difficultate nidificandi omniu predæ exe
poſita columba.
Certè enim ad turres cateruatim
Et gregatim cunt, quò me uertam
280
Quid in dubios inijciunt
Ciues telum lacrymoſum?
Omni modo generofi
Dij urbem exercitum Cadmigenam defendite.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 288 focus
I mark his words, yet, dark and deep,
My heart's alarm forbiddeth sleep!
Close-clinging cares around my soul
Enkindle fears beyond control,
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Presageful of what doom may fall
From the great leaguer of the wall!
So a poor dove is faint with fear
For her weak nestlings, while anew
Glides on the snaky ravisher!
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In troop and squadron, hand on hand,
They climb and throng, and hemmed we stand,
While on the warders of our town
The flinty shower comes hurtling down!
Gods born of Zeus! put forth your might
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For Cadmus' city, realm, and right!
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 288 focus
Ich will's; doch Furcht läßt den Geist nimmer ruh'n,
Und des Herzens Nachbarin, die Sorge,
Weckt die Glut der Schrecken.
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Um Wall und Thor stürmt der Feind;
Ich zitt're, wie Tauben bang
Um ihre Brut zittern, wann neben ihr Drachen sich
Drohend im Nest gelagert.
Denn dort wider die Thurmhöh'n
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Strömt wildflutend ein Heerstrom
An. Was fürcht' ich und hoff' ich?
Hier prallt wider die Meinen,
Ringsum Alles zerschmetternd,
Hagel kantiger Steine.
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Wie ihr vermögt, Götter, Geschlecht von Zeus, 1
Beschirmt Stadt und Volk,
Schüßt das Geschlecht des Kadmos!
Erste Gegenstrophe.

Notes on the current edition

Seven Against Thebes

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: 1885 correspondence corroborated by source Greek on this page. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.) focus

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δράκοντας ὡς τις τέκνων ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαίων δυςευνάτορας πάντροφος πελειάς: Libri
δράκοντα δ᾽ ὡς τις
, nisi quod
δράκοντα δ' ὅστις
a pr. manu erat in G.
δράκονθ᾽ ὡς τις
Vit.
δράκονθ' ὥστε
Par. Ν.
δράκοντα δ᾽ ὡς περ
Rob. Deinde
τέκνων δ'
Par. E. Tum libri
ὑπερδέδοικε
, praeter Cantabr. 1. in quo
υπερ, δέδοικε
scriptum est, et Par. C. qui
ὑπερδέδοικα
, ultimae vocali superscripto
e
, habet. In M. ultima
ὑπερδέδοικε
vocabuli littera a recentiore manu in litura scripta est: prima
ὑπερδέδοικα
scripsisse videtur. Deinde libri
λεχέων
. Scribendum esse
λεχαίων
etiam Lachmannus vidit. Scholiastes
λεχέων (scribe λεχαίων), τοῦτ' ἔστι, νεμομένων ἐπὶ τῆς καλιᾶς· ταύτην γὰρ λέχος εἶπεν· οἷον τὸν ἐν ὡρισμένῳ τόπῳ μένοντα καὶ μήπω δυνάμε-νον ἵπτασθαι
. Deinde
δυςεννήτορας ὁ πάντρομος πελειάς
M. in quo libro recentior manus ad ultimas duas syllabas
δυςεννήτορας
vocabuli
εt
et
a
, ad
&
communem formam
ἡ
adscripsit: ad
u
in
πάντρομος
prima manus
q
supra adscripsit.
δυςεννήτορας
, quod Victorius ex M. dedit, agnoscit scholiastes codicis M., qui sic interpretatur,
δυςευνήτους, διὰ τὸν φόβον τοῦ δράκοντος
. Arguit autem
δυςεννήτορας
scriptum fuisse
δράκοντας
. Ceteri libri
δυςευνήτειρα πάντροφος πελειάς
, nisi quod Ask. a pr. manu
δυσευνάτειρα
habet,
δυσευνάτειρα
Cantabr. 1.
δυς-εννήτειο' &
, ut puto, Vit.
πελιάς
Par. N.
πάντρομος πελεία
ex Par. L. Faehsius affert. Interpretantur
δυςεννήτειρα
scholiastae sic,
ἄγρυπνος διὰ τὸν φόβον
et
ἀεὶ γρηγοροῦσα
et, quo
πάντροφος
simul explicatur,
ἄγρυπνος διόλου τρέφουσα τοὺς νεοσσούς
. Non videtur autem
πάν-τροφος
alteri vocabulo
πάντρομος
cedere debere. Legit
πάντροφος
Tzetzes, qui ad Lycophr. v. 87. haec adnotavit,
καὶ γὰρ ἡ περιστερὰ μόνη τῶν πτηνῶν δι᾽ ὅλου ἔτους ὀχεῖται καὶ νεοττοποιεῖ, ὅθεν Αισχύλος φησί “παντρόφου πελειάδος.”
Eustathii ad Od. p. 1602, 7. haec sunt verba,
πολυβότειραν δὲ χθόνα Ὁμήρου εἰπόντος, ὁρμηθεὶς ἐντεῦθεν ὁ Σοφοκλῆς παμβῶτιν ἔφη τὴν γῆν. ὅθεν πάλιν ἕτερός τις λαβὼν πάντροφον πελειάδα ἔφη κατ' ἄλλον λόγον τὴν δι᾽ ὅλου ἔτους τρέφουσαν νεοσσούς
. Scholiastes Aeschyli similiter
πάντροφον δὲ τὴν πελειάδα φησίν, ὅτι πάντα τὰ ὄρνεα ἅπαξ τοῦ ἔτους τίκτει, ἡ δὲ περιστερὰ ἀεί· διὸ ἀνάκειται τῇ Ἀφροδίτη
. Nihil aliud esse videtur
πάντροφος
quam omnino nutriens, i. e. penitus nutrix, ut
πάμβοτον λoos
in Suppl. v. 542. et
naµµýtwo
apud Sophoclem Ant. v. 1282. Sunt autem hi versus ita scribendi,
δράκοντας ὡς τις τέκνων ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαίων δυςευνάτορας πάντροφος πελειάς.
Ει
δράκοντας
scribendum viderunt etiam Bothius et Burneius,
δυςεννά-Togas
Blomfieldius. Plurali utitur chorus quod hostium multitudinem in mente habet.

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

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erstes Epeisodion. Eteokles, welcher die im Volke durch die Angstrufe der Jungfrauen (des Chors) entstandene Entmuti- gung wahrgenommen hat (174f.), kommt zurück, weist die Jung- frauen zurecht und lehrt sie die rechte Weise des Gebetes. Die Szene dient der Charakteristik des Eteokles.

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erstes Stasimon: Die Jungfrauen bringen es nicht über sich, der Mahnung des Eteo- kles zu gehorchen. In ihrer Angst führen sie sich den allgemeinen Sturmangriff auf die Stadt vor Augen und rufen die Götter um Hilfe an. Welches schönere Land könnt ihr für unser Land ein- tauschen? Bringt deshalb Verderben über die Feinde, verleiht Sieg den Bürgern. Beklagenswert wäre es, wenn eine so uralte Stadt von Hellenen geknechtet würde und die Greuel der Plünderung erdulden müßte". Diese Greuel werden mit den lebhaftesten Farben geschildert nach Hom. I 592 κατέλεξεν ἅπαντα κήδε' ὅσ' ἀνθρώποισι πέλει τῶν ἄστυ ἁλώῃ· ἄνδρας μὲν κτείνουσι, πόλιν δέ τε πῦρ ἀμαθύνει, τέκνα δέ τ' ἄλλοι ἄγουσι βαθυζώνους τε γυναῖκας, Χ 61 κακὰ πόλλ' ἐπιδόντα, υἷάς τ' ὀλλυμένους ἑλκηθείσας τε θύγατρας καὶ θαλάμους κεραϊζο- μένους καὶ νήπια τέκνα βαλλόμενα προτὶ γαίῃ. - Den Gesang trägt wohl der Gesamtchor vor.

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μέλει d. i. „ich bin der Mahnung eingedenk". Schol. μέλει μοι ὧν εἶπεν ὁ Ἐτεοκλῆς, ἀλλ' ὁ ἐν ἐμοὶ φόβος οὐκ ἠρεμεῖν με ποιεῖ καὶ ἡσυχάζειν. 2751. γείτονες καρδίας μέριμναι: Schol. αἱ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ (vielmehr ἐν τῷ ἥπατι) μέριμναι, die am Herzen sitzenden Sorgen. - καρδίας ist wie Hik. 74, 807 als Spondeus zu lesen (die äolische Form κάρτας will Dindorf setzen). ζωπυρείν, anfachen ( ζωπύρει τοὺς ἄνθρακας), übertragen auch Eur. El. 1121 ἀν αὖ σὺ ζωπυρεῖς νείκη νέα. Von ζωπυροῦσι τάρβος (,,fachen meine Angst an“) ist wie von ταρβῶ oder ταρβεῖν με ποιοῦσι der Acc. τὸν ἀμφιτειχή λεών abhängig. Ebenso regiert Eur. Bakch. 1288 καρδία πήδημ᾽ ἔχει wie δέδοικα den Acc. τὸ μέλλον und ist Demosth. 4, 45 τεθνᾶσι τῷ δέει wie δεδοίκασι mit dem Acc. τοὺς τοιούτους ἀποστό λους verbunden.